On the day that Donald Peters died, he unknowingly provided financial security for his wife of 59 years and their family.
Peters bought two Connecticut Lottery tickets at a local 7-Eleven store on Nov. 1 as part of a 20-year tradition he shared with his wife Charlotte. Later that day, the 79-year-old retired hat factory worker suffered a fatal heart attack while working in his yard in Danbury.
On Friday, his widow cashed in one of the tickets: a $10 million winner which, in her grief over her husband’s death, she had put aside and almost discarded before recently checking the numbers.
Charlotte Peters has 60 days to decide whether to take a $6 million pre-tax lump sum payment or stretch the winnings into 21 yearly payments of almost $477,300 each.
The Peters children think their father would have appreciated the irony.
“He’d be very mad, he just passed away and she won a lot of money,” said Brian Peters, one of the couple’s three children. “He’d say, ‘Figures!'”
You just gotta love it. Also she’s not sure how she’s going to take the money? How old is she?
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if she die the per yearly thing goes to her childeren? if so then do that for the sake of the childeren turning into spoiled brats due to the money.
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Question: $6 M. pre-tax lum sum “payment” means they have to pay 6 million to the government? or the 4 million?
The $4 mil would be the tax. I didn’t know they now allowed the yearly payments to be inherited. That wasn’t an option when the lottery first began. You can guess how often I play lotto, lol.
yay. 40% goes to the people in prisons,the bums, tax return scammers